Thanks to the funds from the Mack-Mayerfeld Fellowship, I was able to travel to New Mexico for 5 days in June 2018. The purpose of the trip was two-fold: to visit the Center for Southwest Research at the University of New Mexico to view archival materials, and also to interview elder family members to help

I used the funds from the Benjamin Linder award to return to the town of Nuevo Amanecer, Guatemala to conduct follow-up interviews for my dissertation research and attend the community’s 20th anniversary celebration at the end of July. July 27th marks the anniversary of their return from 15 years of exile in Mexico, where they

From March to September of 2018, I had the privilege of working as a fellow at the Center for Human Rights, made possible by the Jennifer Caldwell Endowed Fund. My work for CHR consisted in constructing an archive for the Northwest Detention Center Resistance (La Resistencia), one of our partner organizations. La Resistencia is a

Within international relations, there is substantial research on how new norms spread and how states decide to join treaties, but very little research on how norms die or decay.  This is an oversight, as norms are not always positive.  We can frame the fight against slavery or shift away from infanticide in terms of the

It is well recognized now that the United States government is deliberately implementing inhumane and discriminatory immigration policies and practices. These policies are arbitrary and unlawful. Moreover, prominent immigrants’ defenders from throughout the country, have been targeted by the Trump Administration for their human rights work in defense of migrants. The Inter-American Commission on Human

Across the United States, recent years have seen growing recognition of the need to explore new models to expand access to health care. While the movement toward fulfilling the promise of health as a human right may have stalled among politicians, Native communities in the Pacific Northwest are forging innovative models, in ways that may

The UW Center for Human Rights is proud to present six fellowships to students for their human rights work. The recipients, as pictured above (left to right): Emily Willard received the 2018 Benjamin Linder Justice Award. She will continue conducting research for her dissertation on the involvement of women in the Guatemalan Civil War. Diana

I was grateful to have been the recipient of the 2017 Jennifer Caldwell Fellowship from the University of Washington Center for Human Rights. The fellowship allowed me to return to my native Jamaica for three months to do preliminary field interviews for my dissertation in sociology. My dissertation explores how different state officials, private sector

Thanks to the funds from the Benjamin Linder Justice Award, I was able to travel to El Salvador for three weeks to support and learn about the work of Asociación Pro-Búsqueda, an organization that investigates cases of children who were disappeared or separated involuntarily from their families in the context of the armed conflict in El

I am honored to have been named the UW Center for Human Right’s 2017 Mack-Mayerfeld Fellow. This award has made an invaluable contribution to my dissertation research in three specific areas. First, this grant award afforded me access to a variety of resources and networks that allowed me to strengthen and complete an article (“Renouncing